Juan Pablo Montoya is possibly the most exciting driver to hit Formula 1 since Michael
Schumacher, and seemingly the one most likely to challenge the five-times world champion. Hilton charts Montoya's full race career,
giving an insight into his F1 debut with Williams and the consolidation of 2002 which took him to the threshold of superstardom
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss raced
professionally over 500 times until his near fatal crash in 1962. At the
end of his racing career, he was the most famous Briton - no footballer,
jockey, boxer or pop star has approached the national adulation Moss
received.
In this book Robert Edwards recounts the life of this extraordinary man,
whose tally of wins was proportionately higher than any other driver's,
ever, by a wide margin.
During his colourful racing career Stirling Moss was incredibly gifted
and competitive, and has talked in detail to Robert Edwards about his
eventful life, from the bullying at school which helped forge his
competitive spirit to the crash that almost ended his life.
Between 1950 and 1962,
Stirling Moss was the reference in terms of driving skill, determination and speed. Throughout his prolific career, Sir Stirling
entered 529 races and won 212 of them - in Formula One of course, but also in GT, Touring cars and so on. He raced nearly 100
different cars. This biography comes up with numerous interviews with his relatives and friends, and an interview with Sir Stirling
himself. It also comes up with comprehensive statistics on his career and features hundreds of photographs and drawings of all the
cars driven by Sir Stirling in Formula One, with detailed four-sides drawing of his two most typical cars
The greatest champion without a crown, Stirling Moss is today one of
motorsport's best-loved elder statesmen. This lavishly illustrated large
format book celebrates his full race and rally career, from the junior
formulae to Formula 1, and on to his post-retirement races in Audis, and
classic events in Lolas and Shelby-Mustangs. The author, a world
authority on motorsport and the motor industry, has known Moss since the
1950s
Tazio Nuvolari (1892-1953) is widely regarded as the greatest racing driver of all time. Through the 1930s
and into the 1940s his reputation for skill and bravery eclipsed a whole generation of rivals. Even today his name alone evokes a
classic era in the history of road and Grand Prix racing. In this fascinating assessment of Nuvolari's life, Christopher Hilton
seeks to understand Nuvolari the man - and the Nuvolari legend as it unfolded. Using original documentary material, race reports of
the time from several countries and the recollections of Nuvolari's contemporaries, the author recreates the excitement generated by
his driving and the impact it made on motorsport.
Since 1930, more than a dozen of books have been dedicated to
Tazio Nuvolari, the legendary driver considered the greatest of all times. The 50th anniversary from his death, gives the author
Cesare De Agostini, the occasion for a brand new biography, having as a background the most recent researches and offering to the
reader a portrait of great historical value through a brilliant and intriguing prose. The volume is enriched by a wonderful
collection of pictures (about 200) some of them still unpublished. A specific chapter is dedicated to the Palmarès of bike and car
competitions in which he was involved from 1920 to 1950.
Along with
Stirling Moss and Gilles Villeneuve, Ronnie Peterson is widely regarded
as one of the fastest drivers never to have won the Formula One World
Championship. Like Moss and Villeneuve, the modest Swede was also
massively popular in his day and remains something of a folk hero to
today’s nostalgic fans, who recall his spectacular exuberance behind the
wheel with such affection. This superbly produced book brings Peterson’s
career vividly to life through stunning images sourced exclusively from
LAT, the world’s largest library of motor racing images.
Back in the
1970s, when a higher priority was placed on having big bushy sideburns
than on main-taining racing safety, one of the most luminous stars on
the racing scene was a Swede - Ronnie Peterson. His racing achievements
remain unparalleled to this day in Swedish motor sport history. During
the years 1970 through 1978. Ronnie competed in 123 Formula 1 races, and
won on 10 occasions. He also competed in other classes during the same
period, and very successfully, too - winning the 1971 European Formula 2
Championship and taking home the World Sports Car Championship for
Ferrari in 1972. This is a book full of recollections by, and pictures
of, people who in one way or another were a part of Ronnie Peterson's
successful racing career, either on the sidelines or wheel to wheel,
Tommy Peterson treats us to some early episodes in his brother's life
and several of Ronnie's friends and associates from the Formula 1 circus
share some more personal memories than have ever been published before.
Emerson Fittipaldi, Mario Andretti, Sir Jackie Stewart, Max Mosley,
Robin Herd, Kenny Brack, Reine Wisell, Eje Elgh, Alan Henry and Fredrik
af Petersens are some of the 47 contributors. And don't miss out on the
fantastic story about when Ronnie lapped two, very surprised, drivers
while going backwards! This volume also includes a comprehensive list of
Ronnie's racing results along with numerous unique pictures and a brief
biography.
